Mark Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0425-5305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 127 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 125 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Revisiting reliability with human and machine learning raters under scoring design and rater configuration in the many‐facet Rasch model
Constructed‐response (CR) items are widely used to assess higher order skills but require human scoring, which introduces variability and is costly at scale. Machine learning (ML)‐based scoring offers a scalable alternative, yet its psychometric consequences in rater‐mediated models remain underexplored. This study examines how scoring design, rater bias, ML inconsistency and model specification affect the reliability of ability estimation in pol…
On the Consistency of Automatic Scoring with Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in automatic scoring. However, due to model characteristics and variation in training materials and pipelines, scoring inconsistency can exist within an LLM and across LLMs when rating the same response multiple times. This study investigates the intra-LLM and inter-LLM consistency in scoring with five LLMs (i.e., Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, GPT, and Qwen), variability under different temperat…
A Reply to the Commentaries by Genschow and Crusius and by Trafimow
The Archaeology of Biblical Sites in Asia Minor: Its Symbiosis with Archaeobiblical Tourism
This article discusses the rise of archaeology in Asia Minor and the related development of heritage tourism in Turkey. It focuses particularly on the branch termed archaeobiblical tourism. It first discusses the demographics of its clientele and then looks at publications related to biblical archaeology that have created interest in these sites. The article next discusses five areas of interest to archaeobiblical tourists: two are related to the…
Fightin’ words in Pauline texts: Their polemical appropriation in modern political discourse
The politicisation of biblical language has become more acute with the rise of Christian nationalism and right-wing movements in many countries. This article explores the American political scene and its rhetorical appropriation of biblical language. Fightin’ words drawn from presumed Pauline texts, have become staple rhetoric among candidates seeking to attract Christian voters to their cause. The article then discusses the use of such discourse…
Explaining Behavior With Mental Attributes: An Exposition With Environmental Attitude
Replicability is one essential aspect of genuine explanations in empirical science, whereas valid measurement is another. Particularly when people seek strong evidence that some leverage can be applied to change behavior the measurement of the attribute supposedly operating as the cause needs to be valid. Thus, before attitudes can be tested as causes of behavior, measurements of the strength of these attitudes must be empirically validated to an…
Katherine Brading and Marius Stan, Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason
Mark Wilson reviews Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, by Katherine Brading and Marius Stan
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show t…
Language and literacy trajectories for dual language learners (DLLs) with different home languages: Linguistic distance and implications for practice
Philip and the Nubian Official: Dimensions of Text and Narrative
The encounter between Philip the deacon/evangelist and the Nubian official in Acts 8 has garnered much scholarly attention in recent decades. Numerous articles and monographs have explored issues of gender, race, and ethnicity in this pericope. This study takes a different tack by focusing on several textual issues as well as exploring unique narratival features adopted by Luke. Each character is developed within his individual trajectory in the …
Philip and the Nubian Official: Dimensions of Geography, History, and Archaeology
The encounter between Philip the evangelist and the African man in Acts 8 has elicited much scholarly attention in recent years, particularly regarding issues of gender, race, and ethnicity. Overlooked in these discussions are significant matters of material culture that can help readers better understand this pericope. Material culture, according to The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies, is an interdisciplinary field that examines t…
American arms and industry in a changing international order
United States support for Ukraine and preparation for a potential, likely protracted, conflict with China has drawn attention to the fragility of the U.S. defense industrial base. Since the end of the Cold War, the American defense industry has optimized for peacetime and low-attrition conflicts, prized efficiency and cost-savings over capacity and flexibility, and incentivized short-run returns over resilience and innovation. While this design m…
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
Philip in Text and Realia: Contextualising a Biblical Figure Within Roman Hierapolis
The interrelationship between text and material culture is an ongoing discussion in academic studies. While early Christianity and classical archaeology often intersect in their respective fields of inquiry, they are often unaware of discussions and discoveries in each other’s discipline. This article discusses a biblical figure named Philip whose legacy is found in texts and realia related to the Phrygian city of Hierapolis in western Asia Minor…
The Evil Deceiver Strikes Again
This article situates Descartes’ physical thinking within the nexus of machine science, which rests upon different foundational piers than regular classical mechanics of a Newtonian stripe. In particular, connected cyclic processes of the sort encountered in clockwork mechanisms (and Descartes’ own vortices) become central rather than impactive collisions of any kind. Such a placement supplies a more sympathetic understanding of many of his most …
David K. THOMPSON, Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
Do grapes produce blood? A problematic metaphor in biblical texts
This article focuses on a metaphor often misunderstood and mistranslated in biblical texts. Relevant texts in the Old Testament/Jewish Bible and the Deuterocanonicals are surveyed first, and fresh translations and interpretations of these are then offered. Several texts utilizing this same metaphor in the New Testament are then discussed. The article proposes that Jesus and John understood the metaphorical use of blood as wine/juice from Jewish l…
Improving Learning: Using a Learning Progression to Coordinate Instruction and Assessment
We describe the development and implementation of a learning progression specifying transitions in reasoning about data and statistics when middle school students are inducted into practices of visualizing , measuring , and modeling the variability inherent in processes ranging from repeated measure to production to organismic growth. A series of design studies indicated that inducting students into these approximations of statistical practice su…
Designing a Learning Progression about Micro-Evolution to Inform Instruction and Assessment in Elementary Science
This paper gives an example of how to address the challenge of designing a learning progression that describes student thinking, with the necessary specificity to align instructional opportunities and assessment tools. We describe the Conceptual Underpinnings of Evolution project and the iterative process of developing a novel learning progression theory, while critically testing that theory using structured interview data analyzed with Rasch mod…
Hindrance as a motivation in divine guidance: The example of Paul
A number of factors are at work as they relate to divine guidance in the life of a Christian. Examples of odegeology – the neologism given to this dimension of practical theology – are discussed in this article around the scriptural topos of hindrance as a motivation in Paul’s guidance. Four examples are considered that are drawn from the book of Acts and from his own letters. The circumstances related to these hindrances are discussed, and relev…
Handbook of human geography , by Tim Schwanen and Ronald van Kempen: Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA, Elgar Publishing, 2019
Handbooks provide a valuable reference to the contemporary state of thought for a field, and the Handbook of Urban Geography is no exception. Editors Tim Schwanen and the late Ronald van Kempen hav
Where Are Autonomous Vehicles Taking Us
New transportation or mobility technologies have the power to disrupt the social, economic, and political landscape, exemplified by the introduction of the automobile over a century ago. The resultant and accumulated impacts have significantly changed how and where people live, interact, and work today. As cities shape, and are shaped by, prevailing transportation options, the arrival of autonomous vehicles suggests a new era of mobility and ther…
The success of Australia’s ‘No Jab, No Pay’ policy at a local level; retrospective clinical audit of a single medical practice assessing incidence of catch‐up vaccinations
Vaccination is a vital health care initiative to prevent individual and population infection. To increase vaccination rates the federal government implemented the 'No Jab, No Pay' policy, where eligibility for several government benefits required children to be fully vaccinated by removing 'conscientious objections' and expanding the age range of children whose families receive benefits. This study assesses the impact of this policy at a local ar…
Living with Autonomy: Public Perceptions of an AI-Mediated Future
The arrival of autonomous systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) offers new possibilities for life, yet the focus tends to be more on the technology than the people it serves. Planners should consider the likely reception awaiting emerging intelligent systems. Using an online survey of 3,249 faculty, staff, and students at a major research university, we tested perceptions of autonomy, including domotics and autonomous vehicles. Embracin…
Précis of Physics Avoidance
Predicate Meets Property
The river is us; the river is in our veins”: Re-defining river restoration in three Indigenous communities
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal of democracy." Crucial in this effort were business leaders. Some of these captains of industry went to Washington to coordinate the mobilization, while othe…
Determinism and the Mystery of the Missing Physics
This article surveys the difficulties in establishing determinism for classical physics within the context of several distinct foundational approaches to the discipline. It explains that such problems commonly emerge due to a deeper problem of ‘missing physics'. 1. The Problems of Formalism2. Norton's Example3. Three Species of Classical Mechanics3.1. Mass point physics3.2. The physics of perfect constraints3.3. Continuum mechanics4. Conclusion
Towards a mega-event legacy framework
The legacy created in pursuit of a mega-event, like the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, World’s Fair or the Hajj, can provide tremendous opportunities for the host to advance urban development. The challenge faced by cities is how to direct the public and private spending on desired legacies to support their pre-bid urban agendas. To provide guidance for scholars and event planners interested in using events to further urban development agendas, w…
Examining the Internal Structure Evidence for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers: A Validation Study of the Elementary Literacy Teaching Event for Tier I Teacher Licensure
Interpretations for licensure tests involve a series of inferences or a validity argument, leading from the test score to decisions about who is accepted or denied entry into a profession. Utilizing an argument-based framework for validation based on the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, we explore the evidence for the ongoing use of the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) for Tier I licensure decisions. The e…
New Perspectives on the History of the Military–Industrial Complex
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The Politics of Procurement: Military Origins of Bureaucratic Autonomy
No U.S. history textbook mentions Robert Allen, George H. Crosman, John H. Dickerson, Thomas Swords, or Stewart Van Vliet. Yet in certain respects they were five of the most important government officials in the nineteenth-century United States. Each was a high-ranking officer in the Quartermaster's Department, a bureau of the U.S. army entrusted with military procurement. During the Civil War, the supply depots in which they worked—in Philadelph…
Imitation of Rigor: An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy
J. L. Austin has written of "the blinding veil of ease and obviousness that hides the mechanisms of the natural successful act." By revisiting a classic "small metaphysics" puzzle drawn from physics that launched a thousand ships of grander philosophizing, Imitation of Rigor employs recent insights into the architectures of effective reasoning as a means of explicating how Austin's covert "mechanisms" operate in concrete terms. By these means, th…
Integrating scientific and local knowledge to address conservation conflicts: Towards a practical framework based on lessons learned from a Scottish case study
Good games, bad host? Using big data to measure public attention and imagery of the Olympic Games
Hormones and sexual behavior associated with postconception perineal swelling in the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus atys)
Measuring pregnancy planning: An assessment of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy among urban, south Indian women
We evaluated the psychometric properties of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy among Indian women using classical methods and Item Response Modeling. The scale exhibited good internal consistency and internal structure, with overall scores correlating well with each item's response categories. Items performed similarly for pregnant and non-pregnant women, and scores decreased with increasing parity, providing evidence for validity. Analyse…
Gentlemanly Price-Fixing and Its Limits: Collusion and Competition in the U.S. Explosives Industry during the Civil War Era
During the Civil War era, when the U.S. explosives industry was already dominated by a handful of firms, the leading manufacturers of black powder tried repeatedly–with mixed success–to fix prices in commercial and military markets. Their surviving correspondence reveals some of the dynamics of oligopolistic collusion and competition. In commercial markets, price-fixing by leading explosives makers was undermined not only by competition from smal…
Chips, Bits, and the Law: An Economic Geography of Internet Gambling
Online gambling offers valuable insights into the relationship between real and virtual places. Gambling in most countries is highly regulated, with its geography reflecting the licensing of gambling to specific activities and locations. The ability to use the Internet challenges the legal foundation for gambling by offering access in an efficient and private way from distant locations. The heaviest concentration of gambling websites is found in …
The Business of Civil War: Military Enterprise, the State, and Political Economy in the United States, 1850–1880
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The Use and Validity of Standardized Achievement Tests for Evaluating New Curricular Interventions in Mathematics and Science
We investigated the use and validity of standardized achievement tests for summative evaluation of 78 educational intervention projects funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) math and science education program. Investigators from 46 projects evaluated curricular interventions with standardized achievement tests as outcome measures. Twenty-five of the projects had potential validity problems related to a misalignment between the achie…
Assessment of Complex Cognition: Commentary on the Design and Validation of Assessments
THE SEVEN articles in this special issue are\nconcerned with the challenges of assessing\ncomplex aspects of cognition in the domains of mathematics, reading, history, and science. Each describes the design of assessments and their interpretive use, with a particular focus on assessments closely tied to classroom instruction. Individually and collectively, they make valuable contributions, highlighting many conceptual and practical considerations…
Mixed-Level Explanation
Explanations in physics commonly appeal to data drawn from different length or time scales, as when a “top-down” macroscopic constraint such as rigidity is used to evade the complexities one would confront in attempting to model the situation in a purely “bottom-up” fashion. Such techniques commonly embody rather complex shifts in explanatory strategy
Saltus: A psychometric model of discontinuity in cognitive development
Living with Autonomy: Public Perceptions of an AI-Mediated Future
The arrival of autonomous systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) offers new possibilities for life, yet the focus tends to be more on the technology than the people it serves. Planners should consider the likely reception awaiting emerging intelligent systems. Using an online survey of 3,249 faculty, staff, and students at a major research university, we tested perceptions of autonomy, including domotics and autonomous vehicles. Embracin…
Replies to Critics
The Role of Movement-Specific Reinvestment in Visuomotor Control of Walking by Older Adults
Older adults with a high propensity for movement-specific reinvestment seem to need more time to "plan" future stepping movements, yet show worse stepping accuracy than older adults with a low propensity for movement-specific reinvestment. Future research should examine whether older adults with a higher propensity for reinvestment are more likely to display movement errors that lead to falling
The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States
Benjamin C. Waterhouse has undertaken the ambitious task of presenting a business history of the United States. The result is very good; Waterhouse's survey is well written, wide-ranging, concise, and up to date. The book succeeds in summarizing a vast literature on American business history, in the form of a lively chronological narrative that also engages major themes in U.S. social and political history. Covering four centuries, Waterhouse's a…
Food Network Resilience Against Natural Disasters: A Conceptual Framework
We propose a conceptual framework that highlights the importance of logistics, collaboration, sourcing, and knowledge management in achieving supply chain resilience. This framework is developed after extensive literature review of relief supply chains, supply chain resilience, and disaster management disciplines. This review reveals that our understanding of supply chain resilience for food supply chains in a disaster scenario is still in its in…
Against Method
Generality and Nomological Form
It is usually supposed that the ‘fundamental’ laws of nature must be general , i.e. must essentially begin with a universal quantifier (Hempel and Oppenheim 1965, p. 272). Other ‘derivative’ laws may not satisfy this requirement but only because they are the logical or mathematical consequences of a set of fundamental laws. As it stands, this requirement is either too strong or trivial. Consider the Newtonian gravitational law: where F G ( x, y, …
Maxwell's Condition—Goodman's Problem
Predicate Meets Property
Family, urban and regional influences on giving behavior
Family, Urban and Regional Influences on Giving Behavior
Forthcoming in American Journal of Primatology, volume 7, number 1
Effects of age, lactation, and repeated cycles on rhesus monkey copulatory intervals
Young, sexually mature female rhesus monkeys copulate on more days prior to conception than do older females, and this prolonged discrete mating period is associated with an earlier rise in serum estradiol prior to the first ovulation of the breeding season. The influence of repeated ovulatory cycles and the presence of a suckling infant on the copulatory patterns were examined in two separate analyses. Extending previous work, young, nulliparous…
Quality and Concept
Spellability: A Linearly Ordered Content Domain
The concept of a linearly ordered content domain (LOCD) is discussed and applied to a spelling example. A logistic analysis of the occurrence of first introduction of spelling words into the curriculum is presented, and the results, along with word length, number of neutralized vowels, and an index of word familiarity, are used to predict word location on the spelling LOCD. This allows the examination of the structure of the LOCD leading to great…
What is a Law of Nature
Internal Construct Validity and Reliability of a Quality of School Life Instrument Across Nationality and School Level
A multi-scale quality of life instrument, initially designed for use in Australian high schools, was used to collect data on the quality of school life of students in Australian and Louisianian high schools and a Louisianian university. The internal construct validity and reliability of each of the six subscales across these three contexts was investigated using Confirmatory Factor Analysis procedures. The results indicate that all six of the sub…
Critical Notice: John Earman's A Primer on Determinism
Your story is there waiting for you, it has been waiting for you there a hundred years, long before you were born and you cannot change a comma of it. Everything you do you have to do. You are the twig, and the water you float on swept you here. You are the leaf, and the breeze you were borne on blew you here. This is your story and you cannot escape it. —Cornell Woolrich, I Married a Dead Man
Saltus: A psychometric model of discontinuity in cognitive development
Indigenous Environmental Learning in a Small Developing Country: Adolescents in Barbados, West Indies
Hormones and sexual behavior associated with postconception perineal swelling in the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus atys)
Henry Felix Kaiser (1927-1992): Obituary
Henry Felix Kaiser (1927–1992): Obituary
The Multidimensional Random Coefficients Multinomial Logit Model
A multidimensional Rasch-type item response model, the multidimensional random coefficients multinomial logit model, is presented as an extension to the Adams & Wilson (1996) random coefficients multinomial logit model. The model is developed in a form that permits generalization to the multidimensional case of a wide class of Rasch models, including the simple logistic model, Masters' partial credit model, Wilson's ordered partition model, and F…
From the Guest Editors
The Fall of the Mall? The Impact of Online Travel Sales on Travel Agencies
(2000). The Fall of the Mall? The Impact of Online Travel Sales on Travel Agencies. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 43-58
The Extensive Side of Nineteenth-Century Military Economy: The Tent Industry in the Northern United States during the Civil War
Because most histories of military-industrial relations have rested on the examples of arms production and shipbuilding, balanced accounts of military procurement and technologies during the nineteenth century are difficult to find. In fact, weapons and ships accounted for a relatively small fraction of all the goods and services consumed by nineteenth-century armed forces. This article, which describes the tent industry in the United States duri…
The Business of Civil War: Military Enterprise, the State, and Political Economy in the United States, 1850–1880
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Gentlemanly Price-Fixing and Its Limits: Collusion and Competition in the U.S. Explosives Industry during the Civil War Era
During the Civil War era, when the U.S. explosives industry was already dominated by a handful of firms, the leading manufacturers of black powder tried repeatedly–with mixed success–to fix prices in commercial and military markets. Their surviving correspondence reveals some of the dynamics of oligopolistic collusion and competition. In commercial markets, price-fixing by leading explosives makers was undermined not only by competition from smal…
Chips, Bits, and the Law: An Economic Geography of Internet Gambling
Online gambling offers valuable insights into the relationship between real and virtual places. Gambling in most countries is highly regulated, with its geography reflecting the licensing of gambling to specific activities and locations. The ability to use the Internet challenges the legal foundation for gambling by offering access in an efficient and private way from distant locations. The heaviest concentration of gambling websites is found in …
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